Dawn of War

[Malladine]

Played the demo and i'll probably buy it when the price goes down a bit and I buy myself a faster CPU...man does it bog down in large fights.

I collected and played 40k years ago so there's lots of nostalgia for me. Can't wait to see Terminators, the Bloodthirster and Eldar web dudes. I wonder if they'll be making an expansion with Tyranids

 

[CVSiN]

its not bad I was in the closed beta..
its a decent RTS..

 

[skace]

It is decent but I wasn't a fan of some of the gameplay concepts. It appears to be hard to make a comeback in the game. Because most of the units require upgrades after being built. So if your enemy has units from the previous battle and makes a strike on your base, he will take a good chuck of it before/if you stop him.

It made me want to play SC again. I will most likely get it though.

 

[Hadsus]

I also noticed the bog down and so have others.......could it be, as someone else has mentioned, a memory leak? The reason I suspect it also is because after clearing out the enemy in the tutorial, the play was somewhat ragged. I had maybe 20-30 units but just scrolling the screen was a chore (on a 3 ghz, 1 gig memory, Radeon 9800 Pro machine). I hope it's a fixable problem because I agree the bog down was a PITA.

 

[Malladine]

There will be patches i'm sure, in fact that's another thing i'll be waiting for.

One gameplay element I sorely miss is waypoints for unit movement like in War3. I used them heavily and it's tough to be without.
I like the squad based combat though, with on the fly recruitment/weapon changing. They've taken quite a bit from Kohan (one of my all time favourite RTS).

Man Hadsus, that cpu you're running is faster than the cpu I plan on buying. Currently use a 1700+ and am aiming for a 3000+. Same ram and gpu. Your terrain detail is probably mid or high though right? Mine defaulted to low and I left it there.

That reminds me, I like how the terrain can be torn apart, the trees etc. Also how when units are thrown around they bounce around, blood spattering everywhere. haha, good stuff.

 

[datalink7]

I'm buying it. Already Pre-ordered. I'm a big fan of the tabletop game, which I play every week, so that increases the fun factor for DOW by 10x for me.

 

[Malladine]

what race do you play? I played Space Marines, Blood Angel (with a Imperial Assassin ) vs my best friend who played Tyranids.

And where do you live, i'd love to get back into it.

 

[MechxWarrior]

Originally posted by: Malladine
what race do you play? I played Space Marines, Blood Angel (with a Imperial Assassin ) vs my best friend who played Tyranids.

And where do you live, i'd love to get back into it.

Im a massive tyranid player

 

[styrafoam]

I have a Best Buy gift card with Dawn of War's name on it.

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: MechxWarrior

Originally posted by: Malladine
what race do you play? I played Space Marines, Blood Angel (with a Imperial Assassin ) vs my best friend who played Tyranids.

And where do you live, i'd love to get back into it.

Im a massive tyranid player

awesome dude, love those genestealers! They tear my terminators to pieces *cry*

Greatest 40k moment: Imperial sniper assassin kills the Hive Tyrant in the 1st round

 

[n0cmonkey]

necrons > *

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
necrons > *

 

[Fenixgoon]

played it and loved it... DOW = warcraft3 the way it was meant to be. sooo much better! they have my $$ already (probably get it for christmas or somethin)
I also played TT... small tyranid and eldar armies, but i never play anoymore
they will probably go up FS sometime

 

[Malladine]

necrons = imbal n00b race

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Malladine
necrons = imbal n00b race

You know nothing.

 

[NYHoustonman]

How in god's name do you get a "captured relic?"

 

[styrafoam]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
How in god's name do you get a "captured relic?"

What? I think its a control point which allows you to produce relic units, you have to plant your flag and hold the point. The game isn't out yet officially & I wasn't in the beta so I'm not sure--

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
How in god's name do you get a "captured relic?"

you wanted terminators too huh?

 

[skace]

Relics are just points on the map that you can capture. Like strategy points, you can build turrets on top of them.

 

[CVSiN]

Game runs oustanding even the beta release on my rig...
1600x1280 with everything maxed and no slowdown even in heavy firefights..
something is up with that rig..

 

[trmnlprep]

i already preordered this game...

i was in the closed beta and this game is amazing. best RTS i've played to date

 

[murban135]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
How in god's name do you get a "captured relic?"

It is just like capturing any other point. There just aren't any in the demo, but they were in the beta test though. Those terminators rock!

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: Malladine
what race do you play? I played Space Marines, Blood Angel (with a Imperial Assassin ) vs my best friend who played Tyranids.

And where do you live, i'd love to get back into it.

Imperial Guard. I'm dissapointed my guard aren't in the game

On occassion, I also play Space Wolves 13th Company for a change.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: murban135

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
How in god's name do you get a "captured relic?"

It is just like capturing any other point. There just aren't any in the demo, but they were in the beta test though. Those terminators rock!

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[stinger25]

All the glorious battle! I think I will purchase it